Stepping Off the Edge e-bog

Stepping Off the Edge addresses the question of literary edges and endings in contemporaryworks of literature from France, the United States, Canada, and Latin America. The bookincludes discussion of works by nine different authors, including Anne Carson, Marie NDiaye,Paul Auster, and Csar Aira. It considers the way that specific texts identify and interrogatetextual boundaries, and also draw attention to questions of closure. Each of these texts alsoreflects on the way we experience and write about edges and endings in our lives.